That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.